Amber Rudd, Member of Parliament for Hastings and Rye, and Andrew Jones MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport, were welcomed to the Queensway Gateway construction site by East Sussex County Council Leader, Cllr Keith Glazier.

The Queensway Gateway project will provide a direct link between the A21 and Queensway.

Congratulations to Jake Elliot who is a supervisor on the Barton Park scheme in Oxford, Jake was awarded a £100 gift voucher for recognition of his outstanding suggestions and contributions to higher standards of Health and Safety on our sites.

Glensanda is certainly one of the most challenging quarry operations in the UK and this is why we continue to look at how innovation, new work practices and a partnership approach can help us deliver the productivity and performance Aggregate Industries need from the quarry, now and into the future.

Water quality could be improved by the invention of micromotors that are able to degrade organic pollutants in pipes, small reservoirs and other areas that are difficult to reach by traditional methods.

Engineering, demolition and remediation companies stand to win what's expected to be more than $400 million in revenue this year from coal-plant decommissioning in North America, the Eurozone and the U.K.

The most ambitious radiation clean-up ever attempted has proved costly, complex and time-consuming since the Japanese government began it more than two years in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear meltdown.

A special charcoal – biochar – made from abundant materials such as wood chips, animal manure, agricultural and other natural waste could hold the key to re-claiming thousands of square kilometres of polluted ‘brownfield’ land across the world.

A new £10 million Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC), that will boost the UK’s ability to translate the emerging field of synthetic biology into application and provide a bridge between academia and industry was announced yesterday.

It might sound like a ridiculous idea, but a global debate on this is in full swing. The Constitution of Ecuador now recognises rights of nature. New Zealand Government granted legal standing and personality to the Whanganui River to apply for a mandatory injunction requiring remediation of pollution or financial compensation.

While hazardous waste accounts for only a small percentage of total waste arisings in England – around 2.7% in 2010 - the volumes are still significant at around 3.3 million tonnes. This figure did not decline significantly during the economic downturn, and is expected to increase when the economy improves.

Experts fear hotter, drier summers are putting vast areas of contaminated woodland around the nuclear site at risk of large-scale forest fires, which could result in toxic clouds and particles travelling across Europe.

The U.S. remediation market grew a modest 2.8% in 2012, generating revenues of $8.07 billion, according to comprehensive annual research conducted by Environmental Business International Inc., the publisher of Environmental Business Journal.

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a technology which could help the UK government meet stringent reductions in CO2 emissions by 2050.1 This EPSRC funding for CCS research - £37 million, is part of Government's £125 million Research and Development programme into Carbon Capture and Storage

Construction of the Delhi Metro is set to claim the record for the most tunnel boring machines (TBMs) in use in one city at one time with the announcement from the scheme’s developer that 34 machines will be used on Phase III of the project.

The United States has a large hazardous waste problem that is threatening both human health and the environment. Current analysis of the nearly 1,200 National Priority List (NPL) sites reveals that about 80% of the sites are contaminated with organic compounds.

ICE (the Institution of Civil Engineers) and BRE Trust (the Building Research Establishment) are running a photo competition this spring for young people aged 8 -19. Read on to find out more and how to enter..

Thurrock Thameside Nature Park -- a 120 acre nature reserve of grassland, woods, and marshes built atop the former landfill. The reserve will be expanded to cover and additional 725 acres over the coming years.

Southeastern Louisiana University June 5-7 - An increasing number of hazardous waste disposal sites are using nanotechnology and nanomaterials in their environmental remediation efforts, leaving open questions about the safety of such techniques.

Transforming public spaces with plants that decontaminate soils can add functional, ecological, economic and social value to derelict areas. A new study calls for consideration of social and environmental factors, as well as remediation needs, to produce effective and innovative landscape design.

Monitored natural attenuation (MNA) is a long-term, ‘hands-off’ approach to cleaning up contaminated land. New research has surveyed the current development of MNA in Europe and demonstrates a clear need for practitioners to systematically collect and learn from each other’s experiences with this form of brownfield remediation.

C A Blackwell, along with Royal Haskoning DHV Ltd, Ouse and Adur Rivers Trust, and the Environment Agency have been successful in being shortlisted for the Constructing Excellence Award in Sustainability (South East), and the ICE Engineering Excellence Award (South Branch) for the project Middle Ouse Restoration of Physical Habitats (MORPH).

New research, just published, details how University of Cincinnati researchers have developed and tested a solar-powered bioremediation nano filter that is able to remove harmful carcinogens and antibiotics from water sources – lakes and rivers – at a significantly higher rate than the currently used filtering technology made of activated carbon.

Last month, Blackwell opened its Withernwick Wind Farm site in Hornsea to visitors from the local Hull Children's University and Francis Askew Primary School, to provide students with valuable insight into the mechanics of an operational wind farm.

Graduate student Jessica Starsman research on the effects of felt leaf willow, and more specifically salicylic acid, on the remediation of soils contaminated with diesel and 1-chlorooctadecane in cold climates

Onion and garlic waste from the food industry could be used to mop up hazardous heavy metals, including arsenic, cadmium, iron, lead, mercury and tin in contaminated materials, according to a research paper published in the International Journal of Environment and Pollution

Organic refuse from households and industry can help turn polluted soils back into rich and varied habitats. But a shift in public and government attitudes is needed before this can happen, scientists say

Data from the Office for National Statistics ONS shows that the UK’s Water and Waste Management sector contracted by 2.2 per cent between January 2012 and January 2013 in the water supply and waste management sector, less than the 2.9 per cent decline seen for overall UK production over the same period.

Predicting floods, droughts and contamination to the chalk aquifer, which provides up to 20 percent of the UK’s water supply, will be easier, thanks to models developed by researchers from Imperial College London.

United States Environmental Protection Agency - Remediation Risk Management (RRM) is a course of action through which all risks related to the remediation processes (site investigations, remedy selection, execution, and completion) are holistically addressed

The Brownfield Briefing Groundwater conference is back on 25 April 2013. The programme will focus on regulatory updates, effective sampling and data collection for risk assessment, and sustainable and in-situ remediation.

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